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News Credits: 3 · by **muswp1** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 5:51 pm

Check this out.

http://msn.foxsports.com/other/story/7172210?MSNHPHMA

HILLIARD, Ohio (AP) - A high school student who tricked football fans from a crosstown rival into holding up signs that together spelled out, "We Suck," was suspended for the prank, students said.

Kyle Garchar, a senior at Hilliard Davidson High School in suburban Columbus, said he spent about 20 hours over three days plotting the trick, which was captured on video and posted on the video-sharing Web site YouTube. He said he was inspired by a similar prank pulled by Yale students in 2004, when Harvard fans were duped into holding up cards with the same message.

At the end of the video, Garchar wryly thanks the 800 Hilliard Darby High School supporters who raised the cards at the start of the third quarter during last Friday's football game.

"It couldn't have been done without you," reads the closing frame of the video.

Garchar, 17, created a grid to plan how the message would be spelled out once fans in three sections held up either a black or white piece of construction paper.

Directions left on stadium seats instructed fans to check that the number listed on their papers matched their seat numbers. Darby supporters were told the message would read "Go Darby."

"It was tedious," Garchar said. "I didn't really think it was going to work."

But it did, and everyone at Davidson has been talking it ever since, said Jordan Moore, a junior.

"That was the ultimate in-your-face," he said. "I think it was ingenious."

Davidson Principal John Bandow had told students that he expected them to show sportsmanship at the game, which Darby won 21-10.

Bandow gave Garchar three days of in-school suspension and banned him from extracurricular activities for a semester, the students said. Two Darby students who helped Garchar received the same punishment after the principals from both schools spoke by phone.

Hilliard schools spokeswoman Michelle Wray said she couldn't confirm the punishment because the Federal Education Rights and Privacy Act forbids the release of student disciplinary information.

"We weren't expecting it to be such a severe punishment," said Jen Trimmer, 17, one of the students involved. "We just thought it was all in good fun."

Anyone think that a suspension is a little excessive for this?

by **The Mad Asshatter** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 5:56 pm

by **Halo** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 6:11 pm

The Mad Asshatter wrote:

I agree.

News Credits: 1452 · by **Blurrz** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 9:23 pm

Damn, that's pure awesomesauce. If I was the principle of that school i'd be laughing my arse off. Heck, i'd give the kid 5% more on every single course he took.

News Credits: 665 · by **Skowl** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 9:36 pm

When will this kid learn, school is no place to learn how to be ressourceful, how to carefully dot out complex plans and structures, how to think creatively and how to use your own wits, mind power and discipline to accomplish a difficult task...

That's not what school is about! It's about learning the useful things in life, like long-division and conjunctions!

by **The Happy Locust** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 9:38 pm

This kid shouldn't be punished. he should be frickin' exalted. that was awesome.

News Credits: 49 · by **Senor Hugo** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 9:47 pm

Highschools, teaching students to be good little sheep since 84'

News Credits: 3 · by **muswp1** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 10:41 pm

I'm just amazed it worked.

I wonder where the link to that on YouTube is...

by **The Happy Locust** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 10:49 pm

muswp1 wrote:I'm just amazed it worked.

I wonder where the link to that on YouTube is...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7Y_AkT7PEM

News Credits: 5 · by **God Magnus** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 10:53 pm

muswp1 wrote:Anyone think that a suspension is a little excessive for this?

I think that the suspension was well earned. Now, expulsion would have been excessive and I've seen that happen for much less.

News Credits: 668 · by **Autobot032** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 12:46 am

Suspension...okay.

No extra-curricular activities for an entire semester? Ridiculous.

We pay these people for what again?

by **DREWCIFER** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 7:26 am

The Mad Asshatter wrote:

Pure genius!

It's in school suspension, so he's really not missing out on anything.

The no extracurricular activities is a bit harsh, but I bet everyone is patting the guy on the back for it, even faculty.

:DEVIL:

by **Great Atlas** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 6:11 pm

that'd be cool to see. Maybe I should plot one of those for my high school's next football game. Wouldn't matter wat the sign says since, our team just recently crushed another school 56-0. So it wouldn't be anything offensive.

Those students shouldn't have been punished for that